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| Sports and Pastimes | |
| Author | Anonymous |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 1676 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 42 |
Sports and Pastimes "or, Sport for the city, and pastime for the country; with a touch of hocus pocus, or leger-demain" by anonymous (1676) contains prop bets, practical jokes, and magic including: Ball and Vase (one of the earliest known reference), Cut and Restored Handkerchief, Troublewit as well as a reference to an early dealer.
Edition
- First edition (1676) - only two were known to exist at the time of the 1999 reprint.
- Reprint of the 1676 edition by Steve Burton. (Reviewed in Genii 1999 November)
Table of content
- I: The Epistle to the Reader
- III: The Prologue
- 01: To seem to turn water into wine
- 02: To seem to conveigh a Card out of a Nut
- 02: How to catch Mag-pyes or Crows
- 03: How to catch Eels
- 03: To make sport with an Egg
- 04: To fetch a Shilling out of a Handkerchief
- 04: To cause the Beer you drink seem to be rung out the handle of a Knife (crying pencil)
- 05: To deceive one with three seeming pieces of Tabacco pipe
- 06: To win a wager at Running
- 06: To know what is crofs or Pile by the ringing
- 06: To wrap a wag on the knuckles
- 07: To make one laugh till the tears stand in his eyes
- 07: To fox Fish
- 08: A Philosophical Experiment
- 08: To cure the Tooth-ach
- 09: To bring two pieces together
- 10: To win a wager at Feeling
- 10: An easie way to take cunnies in abundance
- 11: To take wild Ducks in abundance
- 12: To make sport with a Maid-Servant
- 12: To make liquor Boil out of a Pot
- 13: To Keep an Host from froathing big Pots
- 13: To Hatch Chickens without a Hen
- 14: To cause it to freeze by the fire Side
- 14: To win a wager of a wag
- 14: Another to take a string off a Pipe
- 15: To make sport in Company
- 15: To seem to strike three choaks through a Table
- 16: To convey a two Pence away
- 16: To play the wag with a dairy Maid
- 16: To make sport with Bells
- 17: To cause worms or Maggots seem on Meat
- 17: To write that it cannot be read but by them that understand it beforehand
- 17: To cut the Blowing Book
- 19: To ingrave or write any thing upon the Blade of a Knife
- 20: The Egg-Box
- 21: The Melting Box
- 24: The Globe (Ball and Vase)
- 26: To seem to cut a hole in a Cloak, Scarf, or Handkerchief, and with words tp make it whole again
- 26: How to pinch a Cloak, that it shall not be discovered in a twelve Month
- 27: To cause a Knife leap out of a Pot
- 28: To take three Button moulds off two strings
- 30: To cut a Glass with a piece of match-cord
- 31: The Art of using the Mosaical Rod, to find out hidden Treasure
- 32: To draw an Egg throw a Ring
- 32: To put Pease into your Eye, and pull them out at your pleasure
- 33: An excellent Receipt, to cause a pice of Harts-horn grow into a large pair of Harts-horns
- 34: Another that comes not behind any in rarity
- 34: To seem to write a Letter in the darke & Night, that is without the help of Fire or Candle
- 35: To make a preparation that, being anointed therewith, you may walk aver a Bar of red hot Iron, and not be burnt: Hold fire in your mouth, and suffer no harm, although the fire therein be blown with Bellows: Take red hot Heaters out of the fire, or wash your hands in molten Lead and not be burnt
- 36: Another to eat Fire
- 36: To Make a Room Seem to be all on Fire
- 37: To set Pease or Beans when you sit down to dinner, and you shall have them above ground when you rise from the table, or in an hours time
- 37: To make an Egg fly into the Air
- 38: To form a Snake like a Crocodil out of Water
- 38: A Sheet of Paper called Trouble-wit (Troublewit)
- 41: The Table (of Content)